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- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I cannot believe the Taoiseach pulled that one.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We sought views from all the Departments.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the Taoiseach's backbenchers? There are a few right-wingers there.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We did.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I see Deputy McGinley is getting uptight.
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One must hand it to Fianna Fáil. While I welcome the motion on disability rights and the funding of services, it is yet another example of that party's unashamed brass neck. With this motion, it is attempting to reinvent itself as an advocate for those with disabilities.
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When one teases out the text, it says little aside from Fianna Fáil's stunning realisation "that it is unfair and unjust to cut services for people with disabilities". Had it any shame at all, it would have included a line apologising for the harm that it inflicted on people with disabilities and their families through the years.
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Just a few years ago when Fianna Fáil was in government, it cut the disability allowance-----
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will repeat myself, as Deputy Kelleher obviously does not want to hear it.
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Just a few years ago when Fianna Fáil was in government, it cut the disability allowance, the carer's allowance, the carer's benefit and the blind person's allowance not once, but twice.
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The removal of the Christmas double payments also heavily impacted on the disabled and their families and carers. All of this meant that Fianna Fáil cut the income of disabled people and their carers by 10% over two budgets. A brass neck indeed. It is no wonder that Fianna Fáil's spokesperson on social protection and Minister in that Government, Deputy O'Dea, was heckled and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Taoiseach if he will reaffirm his commitment that marriage equality for same sex couples will be prioritised in the upcoming Constitutional Convention. [46415/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to incentivise landlords and developers to place their unoccupied sale properties for rent in order to reduce spiralling rents particular in high demand areas. [54244/12]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made in establishing the Constitutional Convention; if he plans to make public the names of the 66 non-elected citizens represented on the Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53760/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Death Certificates (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has yet to be furnished with a death certificate. [53709/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to an incident which occurred on 16 November, when persons queuing outside the Garda National Immigration Bureau on Burgh Quay, Dublin, were asked to leave by the Gardaí and told to return the following Monday when the cost of registration would increase from €150 to €330; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals here that provide insulin pump treatment to children; and the number of children who receive this treatment in each hospital [54007/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Health the number of children from County Donegal who receive insulin pump treatment in hospitals outside County Donegal; the hospitals to which they must travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54008/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered providing an insulin pump service in Letterkenny, County Donegal; if this has been costed by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54009/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Buncrana, County Donegal is not serviced by Bus Éireann; and his plans to address this matter. [53740/12]